OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Tuesday 5.00PM. A RADIO station controlled by Guinea-Bissau rebels who signed a ceasefire with government forces last weekend, reported on Tuesday that government forces have violated the agreement. The station reported that Senegalese pro-government forces attacked rebel positions near Bafata. The rebels also claimed that government forced blew up a bridge […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday, 6.00PM LAWTERS acting for Western Cape director-general Niel Barnard have served notice on African National Congress provincial leader Ebrahim Rasool that Barnard intends to sue him for defamation. Barnard is believed to be seeking a R20-million settlement from Rasool following the ANC leader’s claims last week that the director-general […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Tuesday 6.30PM. A FORMER agent of the Civil Co-operation Bureau and a boat skipper appeared in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday in connection with last month’s huge arms cache founds at Redhouse outside the city. The former agent, Cassie Kruger, and skipper Willie Hennop were arrested on Monday […]

LEONARD NDZUKULA, East London | Monday 8.00PM. THE Heath special investigation unit has given East London businessman Neil Stuart Kerr until Friday to explain how he spent more than R4,3-million he allegedly received from a justice department cheque theft syndicate. Judge Willem Heath’s unit initially threatened to haul Kerr, a regional manager for Tedelex, before […]

TRISH MURPHY, Pretoria | Tuesday 10.00PM. FORMER state president PW Botha did not directly request unlawful action in making South African Council of Churches headquarters Khotso House “unusable”, former law and order minister Adriaan Vlok testified before the Truth and Reconciliation amnesty hearing on Tuesday. But given the circumstances, he said, there was no other […]

LEONARD NDZHUKULA, Ermelo | Monday, 6.00PM INKATHA Freedom Party lawyers on Monday demanded the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee chairman, who is presiding over the Ermelo hearings, resign immediately on charges of bias. Advocate Johan Hattingh, who is leading the IFP’s legal council, told the committee that his clients had ordered him to demand […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.30PM. LOCAL shares dropped some of their earlier gains in afternoon trade as investors started to buy futures and sell equities, thereby pressurising the stock market again. According to dealers the JSE closed nervously as traders wated to see whether the US markets will weaken overnight. The all share index […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg |Monday, 9.00PM THE United Nations is to send a senior envoy to Angola with a ”strong message” for both Unita rebels and the Angolan government, the UN announced on Monday. Ibrahim Brahimi, an Algerian diplomat, was due to leave New York late on Monday. He will travel first to the French Riviera […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Monday, 5.00PM MPUMALANGA’S former legislature secretary, Alfred Mahlangu, surrendered himself to Nelspruit police on Monday morning after inadvertently evading police arrest on fraud charges on Friday. Mahlangu is the fourth senior legislature official to be arrested over the past three days on fraud and theft charges linked to the alleged embezzlement […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Swakopmund | Monday, 9.30PM NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma on Sunday night called on Southern African leaders to cultivate smart partnerships crucial for the region’s economic development. Nujoma was speaking at a banquet for Southern African Development Community heads of state who are attending the second three-day Southern African International Dialogue (Said) in the […]